Attachment for garment hangers



Get. 28, 1941. D. G. ELLISON 2,269,444

ATTACHMENT FOR GARMENT HANGERS Filed May 6, 1940 flaw arm ll]; son,

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented Oct. 28, 1941 STATE PATE NT: OFFI C-E 2,260,444 9 ATTACHMENT FOR GARMENT HANGERS Duward G. Ellison, Tulsa, Okla.

Application May 6, 1940, Serial No. 333,636

2 Claims.

My invention relates broadly to garment hangers and more particularly to an auxiliary garment supporting device adapted to support a pair of trousers, or the like, from an ordinary coat hangvision of an attachment for a coat hanger that may be easily and conveniently attached to an ordinary coat hanger, and that will properly support a skirt, pair of trousers, or the like, in an upright position.

Another object of my invention is the provision of an attachment for a coat hanger that may be easily attached or disengaged from any coat hanger of ordinary design and construction.

Still another object of my invention is the provision of an attachment for a coat hanger that will hold the garment in such a way as to preclude the possibility of its accidental removal.

Yet another object of my invention is the provision of an attachment for a coat hanger that is resilient in its action to hold the garment in a taut condition thereby alleviating the possibility of disarranging or rumpling the fabric,

A further object of my invention is the provision of an attachment for a coat hanger that is simple in construction, efiicient in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the drawing, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying my invention, and showing the same attached to a coat hanger, and

Figure 2 is a perspective view of my device.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein for the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral III designates a coat hanger of ordinary design and construction preferably made from a wire rod and including a bottom rod II and inwardly convergent top rods I2 and I3 the upper ends of which are twisted together as at I4. The extremity of the arm I2 extends beyond the twisted portion I4 and is fashioned into a goose neck formation I5 which provides a means for supporting the hanger from a suitable support.

The numeral I6 designates an auxiliary attachment for the hanger I0 and may be fashioned from a single piece of wire rod, or the like. The

horizontally disposed middle portion I! of the at- An important object of my invention is the protachment I6 is of sufiicient length to traverse the twisted portion I4 of the hanger I0 and is integrally connected to and spaced laterally of the resilient arms I8 and I9 by the U-shaped hook portions 28 and 2I. The arms I8 and I9 extend divergently downwardly to a point substantially under either extremity of the bottom rod II of the hanger I0, and the ends 22 and 23 thereof, disposed at right angles thereto in a direction away from the middle portion II, are fashioned into substantially S-shaped hooks 24 and 25. The portions 26 and 21 of the S-shaped hooks 24 and are adapted to receive the bottom rod I I of the hanger I0 and the portions 28 and 29 thereof are adapted to receive and support a skirt, pair of trousers, or the like.

In the use of the attachment, the hooked portions 20 and 2| at either end of the transversely positioned middle portion H are adapted to engage the hanger l8 at the shoulders 30 and 3| at either side of the twisted portion I4, and the hooked portions 26 and 21 at the lower ends of the arms I8 and I9 engage the bottom rod II. The trousers 32 are folded to preserve the creases in the front and rear of the legs and to bring belt loops 33 and 34 at the front and rear of the trousers into engagement with the hooked outer ends 28 and 29 of the attachment.

The arms I8 and I9 are essentially resilient in their nature so that the rod engaging portions 26 and 21 may be moved toward each other by bending the bottom rod II of the hanger into a V-shaped formation and in the direction of the hook I5. When the hook portions 28 and 29 of the attachment receives the loops of the trousers, the bottom rod II of the hanger may be bent in a direction away from the hook I5 to spread the said hooked ends of the attachment in a manner to hold the said trousers in a taut or stretched condition therebetween to substantially preclude the accidental removal of the trousers therefrom and to prevent the disarranging or rumpling of the fabric.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention, herewith shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the size, shape and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In combination with a' garment hanger including a bottom rod and upwardly converging top rods, a supplementary supporting member formed at its middle with a laterally extending inverted U-shaped portions of which receive the said bottom rod of the hanger.

2. In combination with a garment hanger including a bottom rod and upwardly converging top rods, a, supplementary supporting member adapted to detachably engage the top rods at their point of "convergence and having resilient arm members extending divergingiy downwardly therefrom and terminating in aright-angularly positioned S-formation, the inverted U-shaped portion of which receives the bottom rod of the hanger in a manner whereby the lower ends of the arms may be moved toward or away from each other against the resilient action of the arms by bending the bottom rod of the hanger so that when a garment is attached to the U-shaped portion of the said hooked ends the arms will hold the garment in a taut condition.

' DUWARD G. ELLISON. 

